Biography & Memoir audiobooks

What’s Good?

By: Peter Hoffman

Narrated by: Peter Hoffman

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A culinary pioneer blends memoir with a joyful inquiry into the ingredients he uses and their origins



What goes into the making of a chef, a restau­rant, a dish? In his highly anticipated first book, influential chef Peter Hoffman offers thoughtful and delectable answers to these questions. Hoffman tells the story of his upbringing, professional... Read more

Time Traveler

By: Dr. Ronald L. Mallett

Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time Traveler follows Mallett's discovery of... Read more

Write for Your Life

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Anna Quindlen

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this clarion call to pick up a pen and find yourself from “one of our most astute chroniclers of modern life” (The New York Times Book Review), #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen shows us how anyone can write, and why everyone should. 

What really matters in life? What truly lasts in our hearts and minds?... Read more

Edmund Kemper

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Initially diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and after a separation of his parents, Edmund Kemper already showed his twisted mind at 15 years old, when he murdered both his grandparents, who were taking care of him. Whether through nature or nurture, this man didn’t show a promising future from the get-go. But perhaps nobody could have... Read more

John F. Kennedy

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

JFK, or John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was an American political leader who functioned as the 35th President of the US from 1961 till his assassination to the conclusion of his 3rd year in office. Kennedy was president throughout the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his time in office was spent handling the Soviet Union and Cuba. Prior to... Read more

Warlords

By: Joanna Potts & Simon Berthon

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Warlords recreates in forensic and gripping detail the extraordinary mind games between Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, and Roosevelt as World War Two unfolded day by day.



In a unique combination of innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the lives of the four great war leaders: Adolf Hitler, Joseph... Read more

Growing Up Biden

By: Valerie Biden Owens

Narrated by: Valerie Biden Owens

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, Joe Biden’s younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong campaign manager. Valerie, one of the first female campaign managers in United States history, writes of the role of family, faith, and fate in shaping her life, and the power of empathy and kindness in the face of... Read more

James Madison

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

James Madison (who lived from March 16, 1751 to June 28th, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, expansionist, theorist, and Founding Father who worked as the United States' 4th president from 1809 to 1817. For his essential role in the creation and big promotion of the US Constitution and the US Bill of Rights, he's referred to as the... Read more

Lies My Mother Told Me

By: Melissa Rivers

Narrated by: Melissa Rivers

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait ’til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said OFFSTAGE … things that will make you laugh out loud … and keep Melissa in therapy for the foreseeable future.The only thing my mother loved more than making people laugh was lying … or as she’d... Read more

En riktig människa

By: Gunilla Gerland

Narrated by: Anna Godenius

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Det var inget jag hade valt, detta att inte höra ihop med dem. Det var bara så att jag inte gjorde det. Jag kunde inte ändra på det och jag visste inte vad en människa var meningen att vara. Inuti kände jag mig ledsen. Varför blev de alltid så arga? Varför begrep de inte?"Redan i tidig ålder insåg Gunilla Gerland att hon inte var som alla... Read more

Still Just a Geek

By: Wil Wheaton

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton & Neil Gaiman

Length: 23 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd, Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom--and now for the first time in audio, narrated by Wil himself, with an introduction written and read by Neil Gaiman!
From... Read more

Balanchine’s Apprentice

By: John Clifford

Narrated by: John Clifford

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A talented young dancer and his brilliant teacherIn this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day operations of the New York City Ballet and its creative mastermind, George Balanchine. Balanchine’s Apprentice is the story of Clifford—an exceptionally talented artist—and the... Read more

Love Me as I Am

By: Garcelle Beauvais

Narrated by: Garcelle Beauvais

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dishy, warm, and entertaining.”—Kirkus Reviews?The beloved Black pop culture icon, entrepreneur, Hollywood actress and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star bares her life in this frank, funny, and fearless memoir about life, love and the pursuit of true happiness.Love Me As I Am is Garcelle Beauvais’s smart, inspiring, and raw memoir—an... Read more

Always Remember Your Name

By: Andra Bucci & Tatiana Bucci

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting WWII memoir of two sisters who survived Auschwitz that picks up where Anne Frank’s diary left off and gives voice to the children we lostOn March 28, 1944, six-year-old Tati and her four-year-old sister Andra were roused from their sleep and arrested. Along with their mother, Mira, their aunt, and cousin Sergio, they were deported to... Read more

Daughters of Chivalry

By: Kelcey Wilson-Lee

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt & Christine Rendel

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized—and largely mythical—notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of Edward I, often known as Longshanks.



The lives of these... Read more

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

By: Michael Meyer

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on... Read more

Constructing a Nervous System

By: Margo Jefferson

Narrated by: Karen Murray

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism" (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir "as electric as the title suggests" (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom).

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME... Read more

The Devil's Half Acre

By: Kristen Green

Narrated by: Deanna Anthony

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a... Read more

Home Cooking

By: Laurie Colwin

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, the acclaimed author of Happy All the Time delivers a beloved cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. • With a foreword by Ruth Reichl.

“As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.” —The New York Times Book Review

From the... Read more

The Road Bends

By: Sami Yaffa

Narrated by: Sami Yaffa

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Sami Yaffa is a bass guitar legend, an icon of the rock world, and an uncompromising walker of his own way, who rose to prominence as the bassist of the mythical Hanoi Rocks. A man of lights and shadows, and the embodiment of street credibility, Yaffa has recorded with Bruce Springsteen and Slash, played with the New York Dolls and Joan Jett... Read more

Unprecedented

By: Steve Mayer & Andrew Willis

Narrated by: Conrad Coates, Marcia Johnson & Athena Karkanis

Length: 19 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable collection of exclusive, first-person stories on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic from 29 chief executives at iconic Canadian companies.


     Unprecedented is an extraordinary business book for extraordinary times: a collection of exclusive, first-person stories on leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic from twenty-nine chief... Read more

Ronald Reagan

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Doug Greene

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the U.S.A. of America, serving from 1981 to 1989. He was the Republican politician Party's 33rd ruler of California from 1967 to 1975, following a profession as a Hollywood star and labor organizer.
Reagan was born in Tampico, Illinois, to a low-income family. In the year 1932, he finished from... Read more

First Class Fatherhood

By: Alec Lace

Narrated by: Alec Lace

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Did you know that in the United States alone, more than one in four children live in a home without a father?When Alec Lace recognized this crisis and launched his parenting podcast 2018, his mission was simple: to give dads an opportunity to encourage others, by sharing the experiences and wisdom they’ve gained during their... Read more

Criminals

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This combo includes 7 manuscripts. These concern the following criminals, mob bosses, drug lords, and serial killers: Al CaponeCharles MansonEdmund KemperJack the RipperLizzie BordenPablo EscobarTed Bundy Get your hands on this gruesome bundle of titles now! Read more